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PARTNERS
TUESDAY 24TH JANUARY 2012
OPINION
MICHAEL JACOBS
Wilkie is the welsher
This is Michael Jacobs’ last column for Indaily. He has accepted the role as
speechwriter for Premier Jay Weatherill.
HANDS up who wants to volunteer to take a belting – which, by definition,
involves some damage – for no collateral gain. No takers? Then why would
people require the national government to put its hand up on those terms?
That’s what seems to be happening to Prime Minister Julia Gillard over
the vexed question of forcing pre-commitment technology to be added to
Australia’s poker machines. On top of that, it is said to be a broken promise.
You would expect Tony Abbott and his colleagues to try to frame it that
way, but it does not follow that we all have to accept the framework offered
by one set of partisan interests. We should be making up our own minds
about that. Perhaps some attention to facts would be in order.
Let’s begin by looking at the agreement signed by Julia... Read more
VIEWS
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Backpack risk? Really?
Patricia Dexter
I AM MORE than slightly bemused by yesterday’s article on
Indaily titled “Backpack risk to schoolchildren”. I also heard this
story on the radio. My reaction was: Really? I completed Year 12 in
1990, more than 21 years ago. Read more
Cars v cyclists
Penelope Herbert
SO, Alistair McDonald supports his council putting cars at
the bottom of their priority list when it comes to upgrading
infrastructure (Indaily, January 23)? Read more
Food ‘scaremongering’
John Tons
MICHAEL Lardelli (Indaily, January 20) raises an important
question about food security, but surely he is being unduly
alarmist? He raises the spectre of peak oil imports becoming
unreliable, which would mean internal transport... Read more
INDAILY WELCOMES LETTERS
Indaily welcomes letters to the editor. Email us at indaily@
solsticemedia.com.au. The editor reserves the right to edit
letters. indaily@solsticemedia.com.au
BLOG
ALAN DAVIES/CRIKEY
Who does own the roads?
THE key issue highlighted by Shane Warne’s
spat with a cyclist last week isn’t mandatory
registration of bicycles or any need to crack
down on “Lycra louts” running red lights. No,
despite what the Spin King and many observers
would have us believe, the key issue is who
“owns” the roads.
Cycling offers environmental, energy and
local amenity advantages over other forms of
transport. It’s also cheap and provides the sort
of on-demand, private and direct travel usually
only available with a car. With increasing traffic
congestion, journey times by bicycle can be
competitive with other modes, especially in
inner areas.
But if cycling is to become a major form of
transport in Australian cities (as distinct from a
recreational pursuit), cyclists will increasingly
need to share the streets with cars, buses, trams
and trucks. Completely segregated cycling
infrastructure will be part of the solution, but
it’s unrealistic to imagine a majority of cycling
kilometres in cities such as Sydney, Melbourne,
Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide... Read more
A protest against poker machine reform. Photo: AAP
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NATION | WORLD
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REVIEWS
ISPY
PROPERTY
WEATHER
<h1>BOOK STEPHEN DAVENPORT</h1>
<h2>The History of the World According to Facebook</h2>
<h3>Wylie Overstreet
HarperCollins, RRP $29.99</h3>
<p>WHEN Wylie Overstreet published his article "Historical Events ..." it received more than 120,000 likes on Facebook. In his book, The History of the World According to Facebook: A Parody, he expands his article and satirises events from the “Big Bang” to Osama bin Laden's death as if specific activities had a Facebook status. But unlike his initial piece, this latest work is indolent, rote and exasperating. </p>
<p>The entries are often the lowest-common-denominator lampoons. There's the rudiments of a frothy spoof somewhere in here, but it's hidden beneath a mass of clichés. It doesn't help that it's also mainly written from a biased American perspective and that the author appears to think Buzz Lightyear, Indiana Jones, Marty McFly, Humpty Dumpty and Leprechauns are, in fact, historical characters. </p>
<p>Occasionally it's droll, but mostly it flops. Yet at least Overstreet keeps the topics moving so the reader is not fixed overly long with any individual yarn. </p>
<p>This infantile book is a way to slay some idle time if you are easily amused, but even then it lacks the smarts needed to carry off its intended absurdities. It's more foot-in-mouth than tongue-in-cheek as pun after pun falls laboriously flat. </p>
<p>Anyone expecting a cerebral parody in the Private Eye mould should stay clear of The History of the World According to Facebook; it has neither the charm nor wit to be anything more than a vanity project. </p>
<h1>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZcXF10Ir9Q</h1>
<h2>Year in the life of a bike</h2>
<p>THIS time-lapse video shows what happens if you chain a fully equipped bike with bells, basket and lights to a post on a busy street in New York’s Soho. </p>
<p>The urban experiment was conducted for Hudson Urban Bicycles by design company Red Peak.It chained the bike to the post on January 1 last year, then took a photograph of it everyday for 365 days for a project titled “LIFECYCLE: 365 days in the life of a bike in NYC”. </p>
<p>For the first hundred or so days it remained surprisingly intact. One of the first items to go was the “I heart NY” water bottle, then slowly more and more pieces were stripped from it until, on day 270, it disappeared completely. </p>
<h1>RECIPE</h1>
<h2>MANY Aussie households will be firing up the barbie for Australia Day. This simple beef burger recipe offers an easy yet tasty alternative to snags or steak.</h2>
<h3>Barbecued beef burger with three tomato relish</h3>
<p>500g beef mince</p>
<p>2 tbsp water</p>
<p>¼ cup tomato sauce</p>
<p>2 tbsp finely chopped parsley or chives
Oil</p>
<p>2 small tomatoes, finely chopped</p>
<p>6 yellow tear drop tomatoes, finely chopped</p>
<p>6 sun-dried tomatoes, chopped</p>
<p>1-2 jalapeno chillies, chopped (optional) </p>
<p>½ tsp ground cumin</p>
<p>Juice from 1 lime</p>
<p>Halved rolls and lettuce leaves to serve</p>
<p>Combine the beef mince, water, tomato sauce and parsley. Mix the ingredients lightly and shape into fourbeef burger patties. </p>
<p>Preheat the barbecue flat-plate or pan to moderately-high. Lightly brush or spray the beef patties with oil. </p>
<p>Add the beef patties to the barbecue or pan and after 1-2 minutes lower the heat to moderate.Cook the beef patties for 6-7 minutes on each side or until thoroughly cooked, turning once only. </p>
<p>While thebeef patties are cooking combine the tomatoes, chillies, cumin and lime juice to create the tomato relish. </p>
<p>To serve, place lettuce on the rolls, add the beef patties and add a spoon of tomato relish to each. </p>
<p>For more recipe ideas, visit www.themainmeal.com.au. </p>
<h1>TELEVISION DAN BARRETT/CRIKEY</h1>
<h2>Battle for TV ratings</h2>
<p>THERE was a disruption to the Channel Ten narrative on Sunday night. </p>
<p>After 2011 was unkind to the network, Sunday night was to be its coming-out party. A sign to the world that it was no longer the awkward pimply teen we’ve known in recent times. With its “Super Sundays” line-up of the revamped Young Talent Time, New Girl, Modern Family and Homeland, everything looked promising. And then there was Tomic. </p>
<p>Ratings for the tennis have been pretty impressive over the past week as Tomic became a household name. And with teenager Bernard Tomic making it through to play Roger Federer on Sunday night at the Australian Open, it was almost enough for people to look past the fact there was a sportsman named Bernard and that Channel Ten had a new line-up. </p>
<p>A massive audience for the tennis would have meant that Ten’s coming out would not happen with the intended splash, creating some momentum problems for it in coming weeks. Also problematic would be a low viewer turnout for Homeland – a show that demands you watch from the first episode. “Encore” screenings were an inevitability regardless, but with a ratings defeat imminent last night, it was looking dire. </p>
<p>However, ratings yesterday morning painted an entirely different picture than the expected. Yes, viewers flocked to watch Bernie at the Aus Open (more than 1.6 million nationally), but Ten did astoundingly well (helped by the fact that the Tomic match finished early). </p>
<p>18:30 Young Talent Time – 1,050,000 nationally</p>
<p>19:30 Modern Family – 1,127,000 nationally</p>
<p>20:00 New Girl – 1,275,000 nationally</p>
<p>20:30 Homeland – 1,223,000 nationally</p>
<p>Proof positive that Australians love ZooeyDeschanel. The Sunday ratings represent the best share that Ten has had in six months (19.4 per cent) and you’d have to imagine that some drinks were had at Ten yesterday. </p>
<p>Of course, this isn’t stopping Ten from going ahead with the encore screenings. It has just announced the following line-up change for tonight. </p>
<p>6:00pm THE PROJECT</p>
<p>7:00pm THE BIGGEST LOSER</p>
<p>8:00pm YOUNG TALENT TIME (encore) </p>
<p>9:00pm NEW GIRL (encore) </p>
<p>9:30pm HOMELAND (encore) </p>
<p>Sorry NCIS fans, but your double-episode repeats are being replaced this week. </p>
<p>This blog first appeared on Crikey. </p>